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1. You can never go wrong with a Weird AL Medley. One does wonder how much different things would have turned out for the Unites States if Burr had missed.

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2. Open Thread?

   Much as I would love to stay on topic, here goes.

   A diversion:
   Notice the non-ironic [-ally intended] wording.

   Portland Bakery Fires Employees for Denying Black Woman Service After Closing

   by ABC 30 News

   FILE photo of cupcakes [Oppo smiles picturing you picturing this]

   PORTLAND, Ore. — 

   Two employees of a bakery in Northeast Portland were fired earlier this month for denying a black woman service because the business had closed.

   “Back To Eden Bakery” released several public apologies and statements following the incident, before letting the employees go. In one Facebook post, the bakery’s co-owner wrote, “We are doing business in a gentrified neighborhood in a racist city within a racist state of a racist country.”

   In one statement, “Back To Eden Bakery” says that according to its own surveillance video, a black woman named “Lillian”, who is well known in the area as a “professional equity activist”, entered at 9:06 p.m., after the bakery’s closing time. Employees had also turned off the “Open” sign, but several customers (all white) who had already ordered were still inside. Two other white women who went to the bakery two minutes before “Lillian”, and were also informed that the business was closed for the night.

   The bakery says “Lillian” left the store briefly and began recording video.

   The bakery’s statement says that even though it does not consider the employees to be racist and that they were following the business’s protocol of closing at 9 p.m., they were fired because “sometimes impact outweighs intent.” The bakery also says in the statement that the way the employees went about denying the woman service, “lacked sensitivity and understanding of the racial implications at work.”

   In the statement “Back To Eden” says the employees were fired because the woman and the “clamoring public” demanded they be fired.

   In one statement, the bakery admitted that the employees did not necessarily do anything wrong, “this is more about how a black woman was made to feel” at the business.

   — katu.com/news/local/portland-bakery-fires-employees-for-denying-black-woman-service-after-closing

   FILE photo of cupcakes

   :0

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   • I demand that the two now-unemployed women go into the bakery tonight, and every night, at 9:06 with their ambulance-chasing lawyers, and order gay wedding cakes!

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   • Portland, Oregon

     “Back to Eden”

     Ha ha ha ha ha

     This story has it all!!

     Ha Ha ha

     Hee and

     Heh

     Except for the reality of the firings, I freaking love it.

     By the way it calls attention to the extreme callousness and inhumanity of the self-flagellating liberals responsible for the firing — in a liberal news outlet — I love it even more.

     Blessings on those poor fired workers. But they’re in a better place.

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   • Of course, the “victim” works in the dept of education with the job title, “Equity Director, Early Learning Division at Oregon Department of Education”. Training the young childrens to grow up and be professional victims.

     https://www.linkedin.com/in/lillian-m-green-aa44a821

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3. “The bakery’s statement says that even though it does not consider the employees to be racist and that they were following the business’s protocol of closing at 9 p.m.,..”

   …

   “In one statement, the bakery admitted that the employees did not necessarily do anything wrong…”

   .

   Oh, man, would I [chuckle] love to be the employees’ lawyer on this [guffaw] case.

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4. You are guilty in your innocence.

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5. Jerry Mathers, known to many of us as Beaver Cleaver, was born June 2, 1948, in Sioux City, Iowa.

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